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Clitoria ternatea

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 7 constituent measurements and 2 adverse-effect records for Clitoria ternatea. This page reports what those source records contain and how to reach them. It carries no effect estimate, no dose and no recommendation.

Accepted name in source: Clitoria ternatea L.

7Constituent measurements

2Safety records

3Cited sources

5Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 5 licensed products naming Clitoria ternatea as a medicinal ingredient, matched on the exact Latin binomial. A licence records that a product met the regulator's requirements for sale in Canada. It is not evidence that the product works.

Extract types on licence

Source material stated

Flower
Leaf
Root

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Effect types

Target tissues

Recorded constituents

What analytical work has found in this species, at which plant part and preparation. A measured constituent is a fact about material, not about effect.

Substance	Plant part	Preparation	Concentration	Analytical method	Source
Alkaloids	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Anthraquinones	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Coumarin	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Tannins	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier

Recorded adverse effects

Adverse effects reported in the source literature, most often in animal or laboratory models at a stated preparation and dose.

Effect	Target tissue	Plant part	Preparation	Test organism	Test type	Source
Hepatotoxicity	Liver	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	House mouse (as animal)	Short-term toxicity	No resolvable identifier
Nephrotoxicity	Urogenital: kidneys	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	House mouse (as animal)	Short-term toxicity	No resolvable identifier

Cited sources

The literature the compendium cites for this species. Metatron Health has no relationship with these authors or journals and earns nothing from citing them.

Deshmukh, S., Rathod, V.J. Ethnopharmacognostical screening of Clitoria ternatea Linn. International Journal of PharmTech Research, 2014, vol. 6, no. 2, p. 769-774.
Sinha, S. K. P., Dogra, J. V. V. A survey of the plants of Bhagalpur and Santhal Pargana for saponin, flavonoids and alkaloids. International Journal of Crude Drug Research, 1985, p. 77-86.
Karta, Jessica., Pandjaitan, Maruli., Rahminiwati, Min. EVALUATION OF ACUTE ORAL TOXICITY OF BUTTERFLY PEA ROOT EXTRACT ON EXPERIMENTAL MICE. (ICICI-BME), 2013, p. 317-323.

Boundary

A constituent measurement is a fact about material at a stated preparation, not a statement about what that material does in a person. An adverse-effect or genotoxicity record is an observation reported in a source, most often in an animal or laboratory model. Neither is a Metatron Health conclusion about causality, human risk or benefit, and the absence of a record is not proof that a preparation is safe. Nothing here is diagnosis, prescribing or individual medical care.

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